Medicament-vaporizer.



PATENTED MAY 10, 1904. M. SAENGE'R.

MEDIGAMBNT VAPORIZER. APPLICATION FILED NOV.14,1902. no MODEL.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEIcE.

MORITZ SAENGER, OF MAGDEBURG, GERMANY.

MEDICAIVIENT-VAPORIZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,397, dated May 10, 1904.

Application filed llovember 14,, 1902 Serial No. 131,447. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORITZ SAENGER, a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, residing at Magdeburg, in the Province of Saxony, in the German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Medicament-Vaporizers, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of my invention is an apparatus by means of which more or less easily volatilizable substances can be mixed in vaporous or gaseous condition with the air of the room or other air being inhaled without having first to be mingled with other media or dissolved in certain liquids. The spray apparatus at present in use do not answer the purpose which I have in View, inasmuch as the sub stance, though in very finely divided condition, is, taken in the aggregate, nevertheless in the form of drops of liquid.

The apparatus consists of a steam-boiler, suspended in which, but not communicating with the interior, is a receptacle for the drug to be volatilized in such manner that the steam completely surrounds and heats the suspended receptacle. On the top of the boiler and of the receptacle, respectively, outlet-pipes, ending each in a narrow nozzle, are provided, meeting at a point similarly to the nozzles of a spray apparatus. The steam issuing from the boiler-nozzle sucks up the vapor of the substance being volatilized, becomes saturated with it, and distributes it throughout the air of the room.

My invention is illustrated by the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a vertical section of one form of the new apparatus; and Fig. 2 a vertical section, drawn to a smaller scale, of a modified form of boiler and internal receptacle.

a is the steam-boiler, and Z) a receptacle so arranged within the boiler that it is surrounded by the steam, or, it may be, hot water itself.

c is a pipe secured to the cover of the vessel a and so bent that its top portion lies at a right angle to the lower part and terminates immediately above the mouth of a pipe d,

forming the exit of the receptacle 6. The ends of the pipes c d are formed as fine nozzles. The receptacle I) has an inlet through which the material to be volatilized, either in solid or liquid form, can be introduced in order that it may accumulate at the bottom of the receptacle. Among the materials suitable for introduction in this manner may be mentioned volatile oils, balsams, resins, carbolic acid, (both crystalline and mixed with water,) creosote, metallic mercury, &c.

When heat is applied to the boiler a by means of a lamp A or by any other suitable source, the steam envelops the receptacle 6 and volatilizes the material therein. At the same time the steam will issue from the pipe 0 in the direction of the arrows, Fig. 1, and in escaping will suck up the vapor from the receptacle b The jet of steam thus becomes saturated with the vapor of the drug being volatilized, so causing the air of the room or the like to be impregnated with the same.

As already remarked and as will be seen from the drawings, there is no passage connecting the inside of the receptacle I) with that of the boiler a, so that the material being volatilized cannot escape into the boiler.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Apparatus for impregnating air and for inhalation purposes, comprising a boiler having a nozzle-outlet, and a receptacle contained within the said boiler but not communicating with it, having an air-inlet, and a nozzle-out- MORITZ SAENGER.

Witnesses:

HERMANN M. SOHILLING, KURT MUELLER. 

